id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 04-pioneers_023-1793 James Fenimore Cooper 04-pioneers_023-1793 1793 .txt text/plain 3633 122 69 The roar of the gun echoed along the mountains, and died away to the north, like distant thunder, while the whole flock of alarmed birds seemed, for a moment, thrown into one disorderly and agitated mass. So prodigious was the number of the birds that the scattering fire of the guns, with the hurling of missiles and the cries of the boys, had no other effect than to break off small flocks from the immense masses that continued to dart along the valley, as if the whole of the feathered tribe were pouring through that one pass. cache/04-pioneers_023-1793.txt txt/04-pioneers_023-1793.txt